Great editorial. The committee members who passed the bill in record time were misinformed about the contents of the bill. This happens when something is jammed through the Legislature so quickly. This eliminates a key check and balance in our state government.

Leej Tilson

Yet the Freep Editorial Board supports the status quo, where most of these lawsuits are funneled to a tiny group of Democratic judges?

The current system was established by the Legislature/governor in the 1970s. It's being replaced by another Legislature/governor in 2013. There is no "affront to the rule of law" in either situation.

Tom Carter

If you don't get what an affront "handpicked" versus "random draw" is, you are pure Republican and against democracy.

Shelly Lynch

The Free Press has no editorial about the president lying about keeping your plan or your doctor nor a significant breakdown of the disaster the liberal judges have caused in product liability and outrageous awards, yet they make a big deal about this after decades of ignoring the patronage from liberal judges. And yes, all I really want to see them do, all of them, is follow the rule of law, not who is heading the union right now or anything else, but the rule of law.

Richard Gillespie

The current system is imperfect, but the solution is even more unseemly and appears to just be the ruling party eliminating the only "checks and balances" to challenge their monopoly stranglehold of the state.

Jeffrey Faber

The real affront is judges who side with one political party versus another. A judge is to rule based on this thing called law, not personal feelings, nor what a party believes.

Scott Vetter

It is time that these writers get on board and help to move our state forward rather than be a sounding board for the groups that are responsible for the mess Gov. Rick Snyder inherited.

Donald Clary

Not a surprise at all that the Republicans would do this. Using their power to stack the deck in the courts is just par for the course for a party that thinks that all wisdom and knowledge resides in Lansing. Meanwhile, they scream "court packing" on the national level because the president wants to fill court vacancies, but on the local level, they try to put their governor out of reach of the people.

Tim Schrader

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Feedback: Readers debate GOP court shakeup plan

On Nov. 8, the Free Press editorial board weighed in against a bill en route to Gov. Rick Snyder's desk that would direct lawsuits against his administration to a small group of handpicked Republican